• 17 Foolproof Ways to Save Money on a Tight Budget

    17 Foolproof Ways to Save Money on a Tight Budget

    I know from personal experience that when you’re living on a tight budget, saving money feels damn near impossible. Every dime is going toward paying your bills, and there’s little to nothing left at the end of the month.  I was at the point where I had nothing in savings, and every unexpected expense ended […]

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  • 11 Ways to Make an Extra $1,000 a Month

    11 Ways to Make an Extra $1000 Per Month

    When my husband and I got married, we knew we had some financial goals we wanted to meet pretty quickly.  Together we had six figures of debt, and we knew we wanted to pay that off as soon as possible. Thinking about making these student loan payments twenty years from now sounded miserable, so we […]

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  • Financial Goals to Help Make 2023 Your Best Year Yet

    The Best Financial Goals to Set in 2020

    Before I started my personal finance journey, I knew almost nothing about money management. Needless to say, there was a huge learning curve.  A huge part of this journey has been setting financial goals to create some direction for me. This has been such a game-changer in helping me to take control of my financial […]

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  • How We’re Planning to Pay Off Six Figures of Debt

    How We’re Planning to Pay Off Six Figures of Debt

    One of the first conversations my husband and I had when we got engaged was the money talk.  We had already talked about finances before, but getting married meant it was 100% necessary that we get in sync and make sure we were on the same page when it came to financial goals.  And the […]

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  • 7 Strategies to Pay Off Student Loans Faster

    7 Strategies to Pay Off Student Loans Faster

    I remember when I graduated from college, excited to finally move on to the next chapter of my life. I had so many plans for what the next decade would look like.  And then I got the bill with the student loans I had racked up for the past four years. It’s a punch to the […]

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  • How to Stop Impulse Buying Once and For All

    Confession: I used to be really bad about impulse shopping.  In college, I would go to the mall, only to leave a few hundred dollars poorer and with bags of clothing that I would probably only wear a few times.  After college, I became an emotional shopper and would resort to spending money instead of […]

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  • The Best Budget Apps to Help You Manage Your Money

    The Best Budget Apps to Help Your Manage Your Money

    Do you have a monthly budget? I was probably in my early to mid-twenties before I created my first monthly budget. It was definitely eye-opening – I honestly had no idea how much money I was spending every month! When I first started budgeting, I just used a simple spreadsheet. However, there are so many […]

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  • 38 Personal Finance Tips to Help You Master Your Money

    Personal Finance Tips to Help Your Manage Your Money

    I think we can all agree that money management can be pretty overwhelming, and the learning curve seems pretty steep at times. There was a time in my mid-twenties when I really felt like I had gotten my money shit together, and my financial future didn’t seem all that scary. And then I got divorced […]

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